TAKEN 3 *
Starring Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace, Dougray Scott and Famke Janssen. Written by Luc Besson and Robert Mark Kamen. Directed by Olivier Megaton.
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WILD
“Wild is a movie about the voices rattling around inside in your head when you’re all alone. It jumps back and forth in time bringing up every embarrassing moment you’d rather not remember and then grinds them all out in a physically punishing present-tense context. It’s only out here in the middle of nowhere that Cheryl figures out who she was, and who she is.” – North Shore Movies, 01/02/2015
INHERENT VICE
INHERENT VICE * * * *
Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Josh Brolin, Katherine Waterston, Owen Wilson and Reese Witherspoon. Written for the screen and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.
TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT
“This is a film of uncommon emotional directness, of simple truths presented unadorned. The Dardenne brothers have been cranking out one small-scaled social realist triumph after another with such clockwork regularity, it’s hard sometimes not to take them for granted, i.e. this being their first masterpiece since the last one.” – Movie Mezzanine, 12/23/2014
ANNIE
“I’m sad to report that Annie is fucking terrible. It’s listless and incompetently staged, the talented cast gasping away in a hermetic vacuum of dead air, snarky in-jokes, and limp musical numbers. The choreography is all flailing arms and rictus grins, running around in circles instead of actual dancing. I honestly started to feel sorry for these performers.” – Movie Mezzanine, 12/18/2014
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
“Otto stumbles his way through raunchy mishaps of the suddenly single. He’s comically overwhelmed by all the no-strings hookups available to handsome, unattached guys his age now that everybody’s on the Internet. The movie might be overstating these a bit, and if it isn’t, then I’m moving to North Carolina.” – Movie Mezzanine, 12/17/2014
TOP FIVE
TOP FIVE *** 1 / 2
Starring Chris Rock, Rosario Dawson, Gabrielle Union, J.B. Smoove and Tracy Morgan. Written and directed by Chris Rock.
ZERO MOTIVATION
ZERO MOTIVATION * * *
Starring Dana Ivgny, Nelly Tagar, Shani Klein, Yonit Tobi and Tamara Klingon. Written and directed by Talya Lavie.
BEFORE I DISAPPEAR
“Before I Disappear takes Curfew’s fleet 19 minutes and adds another hour and change of disjointed and extraneous nonsense. Perhaps the screenplay was written to mimic the main character’s doped-out dissociative state, but it feels more like a collection of disconnected set-pieces than a cohesive film of its own. Less was more.” – Movie Mezzanine, 11/26/2014
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1
THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY – PART 1 * * 1 / 2
Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson and Donald Sutherland. Screenplay by Peter Craig and Danny Strong. Directed by Francis Lawrence.
SPLICED PERSONALITY 